Coyotes in abundance in Chicago

[botfly10]

It kinda sucks that they're moving to the city, I feel bad for them. There used to be a ton of them out in Mokena, New Lenox, and Frankfort. Then they built up that whole area so it would look just like Orland Park and they have no where to go. Not to mention those areas are horrible now. Lot's of them moved further west to the outskirts of Kankakee, Limestone, and Peotone, but I guess more are adapting to city life.

Its not really about them being encroached on. That happened years ago when they were extirpated mostly through hunting and poisoning. These are new guys moving back into a system where the top predator is house cats. As long as people aren't morons about the whole thing, it should be good for everyone (except cats, but **** outdoor cats... they are death on 4 legs to native fauna).

Chicago already has several established packs, a lot of which have been identified and are being tracked for movement and population status.

At this point, chi needs to engage in an aggressive public education campaign. People should be able to coexist with coyotes in the city just fine. But researchers already found one case where a bunch of residents were feeding coyotes at this one apartment complex. The coyotes were becoming acclimated to people which is bad. Because those fuckidiots, the researchers had to put all those coyotes down.

 

[CutlersCorner]

I've been calling and hunting coyotes for 15+ years. Along with hunting a variety of other animals (waterfowl, upland birds, deer, turkeys, bear, elk, small game...) for 25 years. From my experiences I can say that coyotes are the most intelligent, elusive, and adaptable animals in North America. Thay are probably the animal that I respect the most and take the most pride in harvesting. Coyotes run rampant in suburbia and are in every major city in the U.S.

They are a predator and do help "control" small game populations(rabbits, mice, stray cats). However they also effect the pheasant population, take small dogs and cats and have been known to occasionally attack small children...

A large coyote is a 35 pound dog. If you mistake a coyote for a wolf, you shouldn't get behind the wheel of a car!! I have seen two wolves in my life and they are the size of a four wheeler.

Think of me what you will for hunting coyotes but I respect the hell out of them and do it in an ethical manner....

 

[Bigfoot]

Your dog sounds awesome man.

yeah he is pretty cool, he looks like a wolf from far away, so when I take him for walks when people see him they walk away quickly. Great with the kids, couldn't ask for a better dog.

 

[botfly10]

Just for reference, LA has had a huge coyote population for a very long time. And a lot of other cities as well.

 

[botfly10]

I've been calling and hunting coyotes for 15+ years. Along with hunting a variety of other animals (waterfowl, upland birds, deer, turkeys, bear, elk, small game...) for 25 years. From my experiences I can say that coyotes are the most intelligent, elusive, and adaptable animals in North America. Thay are probably the animal that I respect the most and take the most pride in harvesting. Coyotes run rampant in suburbia and are in every major city in the U.S.

They are a predator and do help "control" small game populations(rabbits, mice, stray cats). However they also effect the pheasant population, take small dogs and cats and have been known to occasionally attack small children...

A large coyote is a 35 pound dog. If you mistake a coyote for a wolf, you shouldn't get behind the wheel of a car!! I have seen two wolves in my life and they are the size of a four wheeler.

Think of me what you will for hunting coyotes but I respect the hell out of them and do it in an ethical manner....

Do you at least eat them?

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

yeah he is pretty cool, he looks like a wolf from far away, so when I take him for walks when people see him they walk away quickly. Great with the kids, couldn't ask for a better dog.

Hope he lives a very long life for you.

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

Do you at least eat them?

I'm sure he eats them or mounts their heads. He's a sportsman, it's what they do. My father and brother are avid hunters, I could never kill a defensless animal but I don't have an issue with hunters.

 

[CutlersCorner]

Do you at least eat them?

No sir.. I've eating some crazy shit but no dog. I've probably taken ten dogs (coyotes) over a15-20 year period. I Have my first hide tanned and hanging in my back garage (man cave), the others I have sold...There are "fellas" around my neck of the woods that do some shitty things to coyotes but there are very few regulations as they are seen as, and are, a predator.

 

[Warden of the Northeast]

No sir.. I've eating some crazy shit but no dog. I've probably taken ten dogs (coyotes) over a15-20 year period. I Have my first hide tanned and hanging in my back garage (man cave), the others I have sold...There are "fellas" around my neck of the woods that do some shitty things to coyotes but there are very few regulations as they are seen as, and are, a predator.

Right! They can be killed year round and there really are no bag limits. My Dad hates them because they kill deer, I think they are beautiful.

 

[HeHateMe]

yeah he is pretty cool, he looks like a wolf from far away, so when I take him for walks when people see him they walk away quickly. Great with the kids, couldn't ask for a better dog.

dogs don't look anything like wolves. just ask the dumbest motherfucking fucktard on CCS. It's impossible to think that a dog could look like wolf, much less a coyote.

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

dogs don't look anything like wolves. just ask the dumbest motherfucking fucktard on CCS. It's impossible to think that a dog could look like wolf, much less a coyote.

Wolf and Coyote.

 

[HeHateMe]

So again, off topic. I have a buddy that moved up to the U.P. 10 years ago and he bought like 200 acres for 60K, built a shack of a cabin and tries to "live off the grid" which means growing shrooms and pot I guess. But anyways, he got a wolf/dog pup from a "local" when he first got up there and raised it like a pet. Now he has it as a "yard dog" and it has re assimilated with a pack. The pack literally stalks him and his guests while they are hiking or hunting, like they are protecting them or something. They form a very wide perimeter and just follow him around. He gives them leftovers from hunts so I guess that's what they are conditioned to, but it's a testament to the symbiotic relationship of man and dog...

 

[Nick80]

The shit I miss out on when I'm not fucked up from insomnia and my shit nerves haven't gotten the better of me.

 

[WCL]

So again, off topic. I have a buddy that moved up to the U.P. 10 years ago and he bought like 200 acres for 60K, built a shack of a cabin and tries to "live off the grid" which means growing shrooms and pot I guess. But anyways, he got a wolf/dog pup from a "local" when he first got up there and raised it like a pet. Now he has it as a "yard dog" and it has re assimilated with a pack. The pack literally stalks him and his guests while they are hiking or hunting, like they are protecting them or something. They form a very wide perimeter and just follow him around. He gives them leftovers from hunts so I guess that's what they are conditioned to, but it's a testament to the symbiotic relationship of man and dog...

"which means growing shrooms and pot I guess."

:andruw:

 

[botfly10]

So again, off topic. I have a buddy that moved up to the U.P. 10 years ago and he bought like 200 acres for 60K, built a shack of a cabin and tries to "live off the grid" which means growing shrooms and pot I guess. But anyways, he got a wolf/dog pup from a "local" when he first got up there and raised it like a pet. Now he has it as a "yard dog" and it has re assimilated with a pack. The pack literally stalks him and his guests while they are hiking or hunting, like they are protecting them or something. They form a very wide perimeter and just follow him around. He gives them leftovers from hunts so I guess that's what they are conditioned to, but it's a testament to the symbiotic relationship of man and dog...

lol

 

[Desperado34]

I live out by the country in a new neighborhood way out in southern suburbs; they are all over the place. I grew up around coyotes roaming, but it's definetly gotten worse. Our neighbor has had her cat eaten and she said coyotes have attacked her two little dogs in the back yard. So they go outside with them now, but the coyotes are ballsy enough to get close.

I've seen them running around the neighborhood late at night, use to get pieces of corn stalks in my back yard when we'd leave the fence open by accident. I've cut through the cornfields by my house late night headin to buddies and I've heard them right next to me, trackin me or somethin- scared the piss outta me.. They were super close, like outta a horror film. Hearem panting and them walking, but too dark to see. I've got a beagle and he think's he's a hardass; wants to chase em.. Gets scary when he escapes the backyard at night, I chase after him- those damn things would get a pack on him in a heart beat.

Probably the creepiest thing is when I take my dog on a late night walk around the pond and halfway you can start hearin them get closer.. Or when they kill something right by ya, the sounds they make is kinda like little kids playing. So high pitched.

 

[CutlersCorner]

So again, off topic. I have a buddy that moved up to the U.P. 10 years ago and he bought like 200 acres for 60K, built a shack of a cabin and tries to "live off the grid" which means growing shrooms and pot I guess. But anyways, he got a wolf/dog pup from a "local" when he first got up there and raised it like a pet. Now he has it as a "yard dog" and it has re assimilated with a pack. The pack literally stalks him and his guests while they are hiking or hunting, like they are protecting them or something. They form a very wide perimeter and just follow him around. He gives them leftovers from hunts so I guess that's what they are conditioned to, but it's a testament to the symbiotic relationship of man and dog...

I'd like to see it but there is definitely a link between man and dog! My family is about to lose our first dog... Ten yr old pug. It's been hard on all of us but she has been a terrific companion is my wife and my first "baby". I also have a 90 lb yellow lab and he is the one I feel the worst for... Dogs of any species are respected in our home.

 

[HeHateMe]

Wolf and Coyote.

yeah, that is pretty pronounced, but...

never forget, BB, never forget.

 

[bearmick]

A couple of my old homies from the Englewood area have been trying to mate them with Pit Bulls.

That sounds responsible.

 

[bearmick]

Just for reference, LA has had a huge coyote population for a very long time. And a lot of other cities as well.

Don't the mountain lions eat a lot of them in California?